Premise: (season 1 Summer 1972)
The misadventures of Harry Grant, the owner of "Grant's Toomb",
a restaurant-bar on 137 Amsterdam Avenue in New York City.
Premise: (season 1 Summer 1973)
The story of Mae and Frank new co-owners of "The Corner Bar"
as they struggle to run it amid numerous staff and clientele
problems.

1.4 [--] The Corner Bar: HARRY THE HOOD
[verified -RL]
7-Dec-72 ABC Wed
Alan King Productions /Executive Producer Alan King
Producer by by Howard Morris
Written by Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore
Directed by by Dave Wilson
Guest Star: Alan King
Cast:
Gabriel Dell
J. J. Barry
Bill Fiore
Joe Keyes, Jr.
Vincent Schiavelli
Mark Gordon as Duke
Paul Mace as Al
Joe Hamer
Shimen Ruskin
Synopsis:
"Grant's Toomb", the Corner Bar, is vandalized. A rock comes through the stained
glass window while the bar is open for business. A couple of hoodlums then
"offer insurance from further crimes." Harry doesn't want to pay these weasels
anything and wants to get out of this shakedown. His initial scheme, a tape
recorder to record the criminals' word for evidence fails. Then, as luck would
have it, Alan King stops into the bar and offers to help by pretending to be
"the godfather." The plan works and the hoodlums flee. [RL]

2.01 The Corner Bar: FATHER'S DAY
03Aug73 ABC Fri
Return:
Another round at this Manhatten bar which serves up
ethnic humor and familar character actors.
The new faces:
Anne Meara and Eugene Roche as co-owners Mae and Frank.
Regulars:
J. J. Berry (as Fred), Bill Fiore (as Phil), Ron Carey (as Don)
This week:
Frank is conned into thinking he's the father of a 20-year-old
Korean with extravagant tastes. [JK]

2.02 The Corner Bar: TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH
10Aug73 ABC Fri
Guest Cast:
Henderson Forsythe (as Engleman)
Frank fights his own battle of the bulge, the hefty bartender has to
lose 15 pounds or fork over an extra $300 for his insurance. [JK]

2.04 The Corner Bar: FIFTY GRAND
24Aug73 ABC Fri
Feds's $50,000 mistake: he unwittingly took a briefcase belonging
to hoodlums. Now they're holding the other patrons hostage until
he returns. [JK]

2.05 The Corner Bar: THE SPACE ON THE BAR ROOM FLOOR
31Aug73 ABC Fri
The spce on the barroom floor is all that is left after kidnappers make
off with the bar itself. Frank andsMae must raise $2000 ransom if they
want to see the centerpiece of theiir tavern again. [JK]

2.06 The Corner Bar: AUNT BLANCHE(final episode)
07Sep73 ABC Fri
Guest Cast:
Mae Questrel (as Aunt Blanche)
Synopsis:
What's brewing at the bar is trouble when Mae's Aunt Blanche becomes
the new chef. Her cooking is fine, but her nagging is driving
everybody crazy. [JK] [Last show of the series. Next week: "Adam's Rib" a romantic
comedy series premieres in this time slot.]

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